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Successful User Experience after 1 month of ownership
Forum categories are a little weak IMHO. I would think "User Experience" would be its own forum. "Feedback" looks a little bitchy. Anyhow, I've owned my ReadyNAS NV+ for about a month and thought...
The HD204UI is now on the compatibility list. So long as your NAS came with 4.1.7 or you last did a factory default on this firmware things should work fine with this disk.
Yes, I think, X-RAID is like RAID-4. Both RAID-4 and RAID-5 protect against a single disk failure. You can use Flex-RAID to do RAID-5 if you wish, but it does require a factory reset to switch. See Configuring Your ReadyNAS for Flex-RAID. It's unlikely that drives larger than 2TB will ever be supported so for an advanced user there's not really much benefit of using X-RAID over RAID-5 if you already have 2TB disks.
The newer X-RAID2 which is found on the x86 devices (e.g. NVX, Ultra, Pro) is like RAID-5 with 3 or more disks (in fact if you use X-RAID2 dual-redundancy [available on 6-bay or greater devices] it's like RAID-6). X-RAID2 has the added advantage of being a dual-layer array (e.g. with 2x1TB and 2x2TB disks you could have a dual-layer array with a RAID-5 4x1TB volume and a 2x1TB RAID-1 volume).
The web-interface is designed for configuring the unit and not for regular use. It's a low priority process so if you are heavily using the unit it's expected you may have problems accessing the web-interface.
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Yes, I think, X-RAID is like RAID-4. Both RAID-4 and RAID-5 protect against a single disk failure. You can use Flex-RAID to do RAID-5 if you wish, but it does require a factory reset to switch. See Configuring Your ReadyNAS for Flex-RAID. It's unlikely that drives larger than 2TB will ever be supported so for an advanced user there's not really much benefit of using X-RAID over RAID-5 if you already have 2TB disks.
The newer X-RAID2 which is found on the x86 devices (e.g. NVX, Ultra, Pro) is like RAID-5 with 3 or more disks (in fact if you use X-RAID2 dual-redundancy [available on 6-bay or greater devices] it's like RAID-6). X-RAID2 has the added advantage of being a dual-layer array (e.g. with 2x1TB and 2x2TB disks you could have a dual-layer array with a RAID-5 4x1TB volume and a 2x1TB RAID-1 volume).
The web-interface is designed for configuring the unit and not for regular use. It's a low priority process so if you are heavily using the unit it's expected you may have problems accessing the web-interface.
Welcome to the forum!
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